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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.792
People
Thomas Couture, French (Senlis (Oise) 1815 - 1879 Villiers-le-Bel)
Title
Day Dreaming (Soap Bubbles)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1859
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297584

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on blue paper
Dimensions
sight: 58.3 x 45 cm (22 15/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black chalk, l.r.: T.C / 1859

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.792
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), p. 32, fig. 28
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), fig. 50 (color), p. 41

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